Bogota The second day of the Congress was better for all of us. We were able to escape the formal declarations and multiple presentations from dignitaries and sponsors, and finally settled into the Organizing Track. For hours we listened and learned intently from case studies given from Cairo, Egypt, our own ACORN-affiliated Harit Recyclers …
Category: Personal Writings
Bogota Waste Pickers
Bogota Columbia perhaps leads the world in supporting the organization of workers involved in handling solid waste under different names and hard conditions. The 13th annual "dia de recicladores" or day of the wastepicker or recycler was March 1st. This date coincided with the first international congress of wastepickers. ACORN was represented by Ercilia …
Scams
Atlanta Attorney Bachmann called our attention recently to an article in Harpers’ Magazine. I had skipped by that piece reading with some fascination about the scams employed by a couple of young folks trying to make it down the Mississippi River on old oil drums. There are very few people (I think) who were …